Eyes to See

"A woman's eyes are the gateway to her soul." This is an expression that I've heard a lot, and I've always felt that it was slightly corny, but that it had some truth to it. Looking at someone in the eyes connects you to that person - not only does it mean that you are listening to them, paying attention to them and care about them, but it creates a bond, however short - while you are looking at that person and that person is looking at you. It is almost an invitation to know them more.

During my time here, I have had two students mention my eyes in reference to truth. One said that she could tell there was truth in my eyes, and that my eyes conveyed to her that I was genuine and believed the things that I said - that they were real. She connected this with saying that I was gentle and not forceful, and I think my eyes convinced her of the truth I was speaking and the love behind what I was saying. This was totally a gift from the L0rd to use me in this way.

Another friend who I shared with recently told me that when I told her about Chr1st, she had been able to see her "shadow" or her sin in my eyes. I think that the urgency and truth that was coming from the message I was speaking was somehow evident in my eyes. This concept is a very interesting and mysterious thing ... how can you see or "feel" truth in someone's eyes? Yet I think about how you can look at people's eyes when they are talking, and from seeing the expression in their eyes, you understand more about how they feel and what they are thinking - whether they are genuine or fake, whether they are happy or sad, whether they are angry or troubled, whether they believe and mean what they say or whether they are trying to convince themselves or to deceive others.

Sometimes I wonder what we would see if we could look G0d in the eye. Last semester, I went to a really powerful and encouraging women's conference. A lot of us there really felt G0d's presence and that we had met with Him. One of my friends thought that she had heard Him say to her, "You can look me in the eye." Because of what Chr1st did for us, we can approach the throne of grace with confidence. Chr1st IS truth, and through Him we can know God and "look Him in the eye" so to speak. If looking people in the eye is such a special and unique thing, then how great must it be to look G0d in the eye? I want to spend more of my life focusing on this - on seeing Him for who He is, learning about His character, focusing on His truth; instead of focusing on myself and all of the meaningless in comparison details that make up the daily grind.

I want to look deep in to G0d's eyes, and there I will really see the Truth.